Home / Quotes / Quote by Judith Guest

Quote by Judith Guest

“With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.”

Quote by Judith Guest

Author

Judith Guest is an American novelist renowned for her work 'Falling Away', which was first published in 1971 and won the Pulitzer Prize. Her works often delve into family and interpersonal relationships, characterized by their nuanced emotional depth and insightful observations. more

You May Also Like

“You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.”

Ifs Stills Care Church Prayer Powerful Groups Administration Cells Remove Collapse Preaching Prayer Life

Author:David Yonggi Cho

“A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian personality, and led to the betrayal of his mentor, Josef Breuer. Breger’s analysis exposes a fascinating paradox: Freud both invented psychoanalysis and impoverished its development. A must-read for everyone interested in how ideas can change the world.”

“To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.”

Ifs Wells May Doe Seems Song Culture Path Identity Possibility Survival Tasks Louisiana Effortless

Author:Michael Doucet

“Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you”

Years Ends Kids Hate Half Teenage Hate You Mundane Teenage Years

Author:Donna Ball

“Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Lasts Courses Forever Gestures One Word

Book:Total Chaos

Source: Total Chaos

“The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.”

Doe Answers Poet Bears Despair Sensuality Witness Desperate

Book:Total Chaos

Source: Total Chaos

“I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say no to other people with a clear conscience.”

People Ifs I Can Wanted Clear Comfortable Conscience Rejection Clear Conscience Pushovers

Author:Beth Ditto

“Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.”

Book:Total Chaos

Source: Total Chaos

“I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.”

Ifs Lasts Alive Feet Winner Survivor Sole Honorable

Book:Total Chaos

Source: Total Chaos

“Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.”

Knows Fighting Sides Realizing Loses Cities Know How Middle Hero Late Tragedy Ancient Too Late Tourists Marseille

Book:Total Chaos

Source: Total Chaos